Junior Global M&E Specialist - Evaluation & Learning

Dexis; Washington; On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

Job summary

Dexis is seeking a Junior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to support a U.S. Department of State counterterrorism and security assistance evaluation program.

The role involves designing, implementing, analyzing, and reporting independent evaluations of foreign assistance projects worldwide. The position is contingent upon contract award and requires strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills, plus willingness to travel internationally and hold an active SECRET clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related field.
• 3–5 years of professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, learning, assessment, research, or analytics.
• Experience with large-scale M&E activities including data collection, analysis, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with evaluations involving security cooperation, stabilization, or international development programs.
• Awareness of applicable monitoring and evaluation policies and reporting requirements.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills.
• Experience with interviews, focus groups, surveys, or other data collection methods.
• Active SECRET security clearance.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and implementation of M&E activities.
• Contribute to evaluation design, methodologies, data collection tools, and analysis plans.
• Conduct desk reviews, document analysis, stakeholder mapping, and background research.
• Support data collection efforts: interviews, surveys, fieldwork.
• Analyze data and contribute to findings, conclusions and recommendations.
• Draft sections of evaluation reports, presentations and briefing materials.
• Assist with data management, QA, and data visualization.
• Coordinate with team members and stakeholders throughout the process.

Skills

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Analytical skills

Writing skills

Presentation skills

Security clearance

Data collection

Interviews & focus groups

Stakeholder engagement

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in international affairs, international development, public policy, political science, economics, sociology, evaluation, or related field

Tools

NVivo

Tableau

Power BI

SPSS

Stata

R

Job description

Dexis is seeking a Junior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to support a U.S. Department of State counterterrorism and security assistance evaluation program.

The role involves designing, implementing, analyzing, and reporting independent evaluations of foreign assistance projects worldwide. The position is contingent upon contract award and requires strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills, plus willingness to travel internationally and hold an active SECRET clearance.